Halloween 2025 Special Episode Part 3

Shadows that kill without claws or fangs — they’re made in air‑conditioned rooms, stamped with official seals, and paid for with the stolen hope of entire communities. In this final installment of our Halloween 2025 special, Paul leads a hard, unflinching look at the most terrifying monsters of all: systemic greed, ghost projects, and the quiet machinery of corruption that turns budgets into death sentences.

From a crumbling flood wall in Barangay San Gabriel that was never really built, to hospitals skimped of equipment because of kickbacks, to the spectacle of ill‑gotten wealth flaunted while communities drown — these are real horrors that defy folklore because they are chillingly true. We trace the human cost: displaced families, failed surgeries, ruined livelihoods, and the suffocating fear that the system itself is rigged against the powerless. We also connect the pattern to global disasters where secrecy and political survival amplified catastrophe.

Trigger warning: this episode contains themes and scenes some listeners may find deeply disturbing. Listen with caution.

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